mào
longitude
Phonosemantic compound. 衣 represents the meaning and 矛 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
4129th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+88A4 |
Shuowen | “袤,衣帶以上。从衣,矛聲。一曰:南北曰袤,東西曰廣。,籀文袤从楙。” |
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